It won't be just the Chelsea players who will be focused on their opponents in their game against Middlesbrough on Sunday. Club scouts will also be at the Riverside Stadium to watch and assess one of England's most promising young defenders

While the players traipse off to take part in meaningless friendlies and marginally less meaningless World Cup qualifiers, let us revel in a Premier League weekend packed to the brim with wanton thrashings, breathless derbies, Davids slaying their Goliath counterparts, and a Michael Carrick sighting